To upgrade to Tiger you MUST do "fink reinstall fink" followed by "fink selfupdate". This cured a raft of problems I was having with many different packages, most notably those where Python-based packages wouldn't compile complaining about the configuration (of what turned out to be Python itself, I think, not the package) being for 10.3 but the operating system being 10.4 and problems where Perl-based packages were looking for 5.8.1 or 5.8.4 while the system has 5.8.6.
To verify that your configuration is correct, as pointed out in an earlier post on this list which was most helpful in revealing the above-described problem, make sure that the Distribution line in /sw/etc/fink.conf says "Distribution: 10.4-transitional" and that /sw/fink/dists is a symbolic link to 10.4-transitional.
The updateall will probably die a number of times. Often it ends with a helpful message about what to do before trying again. Its suggestion to try scanpackages isn't helpful in this initial massive updateall, but suggestions such as "fink install python" are crucial. Do those then try updateall again. Repeat until satisfied or frustrated beyond endurance.
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